State legislatures across the country are currently deciding their state budgets. Education spending is a topic that gathers the most emotion anywhere. Tempers flared last Tuesday at the Wisconsin State…

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as Research Fellow Isaac Orr joins the Morning Martini show to discuss the politics and policies of hydraulic fracturing. Orr caught up with Morning Martini while attending the Wisconsin Conservative Action sideshow.

Anyone who travels across this country or lives near the vicinity of wind farms can describe the increasing industrial blight wind farms impose on previously unmarred vistas and formerly wild, undeveloped locales.

Solar systems are being installed at hundreds of schools across the United States. Educators use solar panels to teach students about the “miracle” of energy sourced from the sun. But a closer look at these projects shows poor economics and a big bill for citizens.

I delivered the following remarks on February 23, 2013 at the Eighth Annual Wisconsin Conservative Conference, Bluemound Gardens, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Thank you for the introduction, thank you all for being…

Next January, WI. State Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) will introduce legislation to freeze Wisconsin’s renewable portfolio standard. Under current law, 10% of the state’s power must come from renewable sources…